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扔

rēng

throw

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 乃 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

乃 sound component

乃  Sound component

nǎi

  

then

Evolution

扔 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
扔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

扔  

rēng

throw, hurl; throw away, cast; to throw; to throw away

Most common words with 扔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扔

to throw

扔掉

to throw away

扔下

to throw down

扔弃

to abandon

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*njɯŋ

ȵɨŋ

rēng

throw


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 40.9739% of movies

978th most common character in movies

1905th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+6254

Shuowen

“扔，因也。从手，乃聲。”


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